The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


hole in the floor, doused the other woman, while
il bed, with hot water.
A WOMAN whose age was stated to be 1O2 years
was before the Harlem Police Court, \. Y, for
drunkenness on Sunday, and she's said TO be an
old offender in double sense.
AMONG the queer names in the Chicago direc-
tory for 1887 are the following: Woggow, Smrz,
smairkivolez, Smuczynski, Hop, Wow, Yshick,
Yslfie. Zwlerzchouska, Szclmochowsh ana
Trjnak
a DETROIT citizen is building a novel toboggan
slide for bathers at his lighthouses Toboggans
on rollers viii carry the bathers down the slide
into the shoal water, giving plunge that must
be taken to be appreciated
An OWL attacked Jersey City man the other
evening and fought for several minutes before
it was frightened off by the noise of a passing
milk wagon. Shortly after it renewed its tight
with another citizen, who cholsed it to death
A SAN Francisco man who bought lot in a
cemetery on the suburbs and then made known
his intention of setting up a drinking saloon on
the site has been notified by the trustees that a
cemetery is place for bodies, not spirits, and
he consequently abandoned the enterprise.
THE WOMEN will be interested to know that
the hustle is of Persian origin. Mott, in his
notes on the codes of Hafiz," defines the
''refaight' as a kind of bolster which the ladies
fix to the under garment to produce certain
roundness, thought by them to be becoming.
A LONDON DOG once saw a performing beast
of his own species at fair. The tricks and lau-
rels of the performing dog did not permit him
to sleep. His master missed him often, and one
day found him practicing his steps by himself
in an empty room. When he thought himself
perfect he had an ''at home and exhibited be-
fore the dogs in the neighborhood.
LAST WEEK there was celebrated at the Aca-
lares rancho, in Contra Costa county, Cal, the
Goth birthday Of the Hon. Elan Brown, one of
the earliest pioneers who crossed the plains and
founded homes in California. He was born in
New York State in 1897, the year that John
Adams was inaugurated second President of the
United States. He danced two hours ON the oc-
casion.
The Ce1ttrobldtt EIektrotechnik announces
that the Edison German Society has constructed
an electric kettle in which the source of heat is
constituted by a bobbin of resistance, placed in
a recipient placed eXteriorly by circular pro-
tuberance III the form of a cushion, with hole
in the middle, and on which the kettle rests.
With this apparatus liter of water can be
made to boil in fifteen minutes
MARRIED women at Kaufman, Tex, are said
to frequently take in the sights in male attire.
A young girl atDallas was sent home by the police
while maSquerading in male attire. Waco
girl was photographed in her brothers spring
suit for fun, and the picture has raised a pretty
scandal. Marion Bggs, CaSs county farm
boy, has turned out to be farm girl She wore
trousers for year before discovery.
PARTISAN street boys have invented a new
topical game carrying off the commissary"
They divide themselves into two bodies and
enact the recent capture of NJ. Schnaebeles at
Pagny, on the Alsatian frontier, which caused
such serious agitation. A chalk line marks the
boundary between France and Germany, and
the lads take turns to represent the obnoxious
| TeutOnc officials who drag N. Schnaebeles over
the frontier.
WALTER WEBSTER, of Hamilton, O., while
calling on Miss Whitehead asked her for the
sixth time if she would marry him. This she
refused, saying they were too young. Then he
asked her to promise him that she would marry
him when she was II, and during that time she
would not keep company with any other young
man. Again she refused. On leaving the house
he asked her for a goodnight kiss, and on
being refused he drew a revolver and shot him
self dead.
MARSHALL, Miss, boasts of baby II months
old that whistles. Battle Creek has got a baby
boy years old that spends all his pennies for
cigars and has been known to smoke five in one
day He will steal pipe and beg passers for
smoking tobacco. The boy has perfect mania
for tobacco that developed itself before he could
talk. when the youngster would crawl up to his
fathers clothes and steal cigars out of his peck
cts to smoke. He wears dresses, and is small
for his age
THERE is place in New York where the finest
of wedding trousseaus, even down to the shoes,
stockings and everything else, may be hired for
night The owner of the place says that
prominent society women get married in suits
furnished for the night. When asked by friends
after the marriage why they do not wear the
dresses they tell them that they intend never to
wear them after the first night. Men are also
| rugged up in wedding flnery for 81. The ladies
pay from 81 to $40 for their outfits.
THE remains of an ancient Gaulish burying
ground have been found at Adamvlle, near
Paris. An architect experimenting road-mak-
ing operations in the district noticed that frag-
mentS of old pottery etc, were dug up, and SO
began careful researches. He has now uncov-
cred 1ftytwo tombS containing twelve skeletons
OF ancient warriors buried with their arms. and
| the remains of numerous women and children.
All were covered with heavy stones Bronze
ornaments, iron weapons and pottery lie scat
tered around but no coins TO fix the date.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, NJ. P, has succeeded in
| teaching black poodle dog "a little light read
ing" He took pieces of cardboad and painted
on them the words food "out, 'bone, "tea. s.
and so on. Then by associating food in the ami
| mails mind with the card bearing the word
food, - he succeeded in getting it to pick out
| the card bearing that word Again when
asked if he wanted to go out he flshed ont the
| card bearing that word, and so forth. Pub.
| Tic Opinion, of London, says: THE teaching
| took a long time and, though to a large extent
| futile, it shows what may be done with some
| dogs by proper methods of training"
THOUSANDS OF young herman girls are lamentS
| ing the death of their favorite novelist ''Mal.
| litt"-whose real name-Eugenie Johns
| known to few of them. She was born in 1926
| and as n young girl made an attempt as an
| opera singer; but her bashfulneSs and an ear
| disease prevented her from winning success in
| this direction. SO she settled in a lonely village
! where she spent the remainder of her life writ.
| ing stories for the weekly Gdrtenldube As the
| author never had any experience of life, these
novels are of the most naive description but
| they appealed TO the taste of young girls and
| ''AlarlIttS' fame and fortune was soon made
THE still form of a little boy lay in the coffin
surrounded by mourning friends. mason
came into the room and asked TO look at the
| lovely face. You wonder that care so much -
| he said, as the tears rolled down his cheeks
'One time was coming down by long ladder
from a high roof, and found your little boy
standing close beside me when / reached the
ground. He looked up into my face with child.
ish wonder, and asked frankly: Weren't You
afraid Of falling when you were up so high p
and before had tirae TO answer he said: 'Oh.
know why you are not afraid; you said Your
prayers this morning before you began work .
Lad not prayed, but l never forgot to pray
from that day to this"
GES. S. n. SoUTnARD, formerly of the Four
teenth Vermont, was among the veterans who
attended the reunion at Fairhaven, in that State.
a few days ago. On the day before the reunion
he and his family had celebrated the anniyersa.
of his marriaVa There is n ittlo ,ou,onaa